Executive

🇺🇸Liz Cheney

Politics

b. 1966

"Sometimes there is a tendency to talk about women as though we are a herd...women believe this or women want that. But we very much vote on the issues depending on what's important."

🇺🇸Charles K. Kao

Science

1933–2018

"If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real."

🇺🇸Jesse Helms

Politics

1921–2008

"sent me to Washington to vote no against excessive Federal spending, against forced busing of little schoolchildren, and to vote no against the forces who have driven God out of the classroom."

🇺🇸David W. Oxtoby

Science

b. 1951

"Chemical reasoning, as used both in applications and in basic research, resembles a detective story in which tangible clues lead to a mental picture of events never directly witnessed by the detective."

🇺🇸Scott Adams

Literature

1957–2026

"My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser."

Leonhard Euler

Mathematics

1707–1783

"Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk."

"The UN has warned that global food supply needs to increase by 70–100 per cent by 2050. Yet today as much as half the food produced worldwide is squandered – binned, left to rot or fed to farm animals."